Islamist rebels to sign 'peace treaty' with Al Qaeda, yet no response by ISIL

A senior commander in Ahrar al-Sham, Islamic Front unit, said Islamist rebels have accepted to sign peace treaty with the Islamic State of Iraq and The levant (ISIL) and Islamist rebels, who still waiting the ISIL response, Jihadist sources said.

Khaled Abu Anas, a senior commander in Ahrar al-Sham, Islamic Front unit, revealed Jaish Al muhahedeen and the Islamic Front have accepted the suggested peace treaty by the Saudi Sheikh Abdullah al-Muhaysini, top commander in the ISIL to put an end to the one-month infighting.

The Victorious Party In the Land of Ash-Sham, rebel group, said in a statement posted online that the killing of Hajji Bakr of ISIL’s mastermind by Liwa al-Fateh and Liwa Al Tawheed (Islamic Front) was essentially their unofficial response to the Sheikh al-Muhaysini peace initiative to end the infighting.

For long time, Hajji Bakr, a former colonel in the Iraqi army,  has been considered as the ISIL’s mastermind and the first military commander, sources said.

Nearly 1,400 people have been killed in Syria since clashes between rebel forces and the jihadist (ISIL) erupted this month, AFP reported.

“The number of people killed in fighting between the ISIL and rebel forces since January 3 has risen to 1,395,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Clashes between rebels and jihadists from ISIL erupted early in January after months of rising tensions.

While opposition fighters initially welcomed foreign jihadists to the battle, ISIL has been accused of a string of abuses against civilians and rival rebel groups.

Among the abuses that sparked the fierce clashes was the kidnap, torture and execution by the group of a doctor from a powerful Islamist rebel brigade, AFP said.

The all-out fight has seen ISIL lose territory in Idlib and Aleppo provinces, but it has consolidated its hold over Raqa city, the only provincial capital to fall from regime control.